One trimaran’s race to protect the ocean

Brut America

The crew of Sails of Change is trying to sail around the world in record time, using only renewable energy...  Follow the adventure on here: https://spindrift-racing.com/ Spindrift racing

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00:00It is possibly the hardest and more difficult race in the world.

00:06You're not allowed to stop.

00:08You're not allowed to have assistance.

00:12And then there's a challenge within the challenge,

00:13which is to go without the fossil fuel.

00:25We're going to go around the world for over 25,000 miles

00:29and we're not going to see land.

00:43So on a typical racing boat, we would remove the engine

00:47and we replace it with a generator that functions with fossil fuel.

00:51We haven't taken the generator.

00:53We've put batteries instead with our solar panels and our wind power energy.

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